{"id":19279,"date":"2020-04-28T21:04:27","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T19:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroalter.local\/?p=19279"},"modified":"2020-04-28T21:04:27","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T19:04:27","slug":"citizens-take-over-europe-calling-for-a-conference-on-the-future-of-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroalter.com\/it\/citizens-take-over-europe-calling-for-a-conference-on-the-future-of-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizens Take Over Europe: Calling for a Conference on the Future of Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This year\u2019s <\/span><b>Europe Day,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the 9th of May, is marked by the 70th anniversary of the Schuman Declaration, by the 75th anniversary of the end of World War 2 and by the terrible Covid-19 pandemia. At a turning point for Europe, <\/span><b>civil society organisations<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> across the Union <\/span><b>are taking the lead to organise a citizen-led Conference on the Future of Europe, and send out a message of solidarity, cooperation and democracy.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The initiative is launched by means of a joint online mobilisation for the 9th of May under the title <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><\/i><b><i>Citizens Take over Europe<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u201c<\/span><b>We are a coalition of European civil society organisations across the EU that puts citizens at the centre of the debate on our futur<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">e, on the reshaping of our society and our common European project, to set out how we can recover from this health, social, economic and political crisis through solidarity and cooperation.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>\u201cCitizens Take Over Europe\u201d<\/i><\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">kicks off on the 9th of May presenting a <\/span><b>jointly curated \u201conline festival\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> where different organisations and artistic institutions organise events open to\u00a0 citizens\u2019 active participation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A <\/span><b>rich program of online events <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">will be<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">disseminated through hundreds of organisations from all over Europe, with the <\/span><b>participation of internationally-acclaimed political thinkers, artists, philosophers, writers activists, citizens and residents.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The initiative is a joint effort of a continuously expanding group of civil society organisations, currently consisting of: Alliance4Europe, Another Europe is Possible, CIVICO Europa, Democracy International, European Alternatives, European Civic Forum, European Democracy Lab, European Women Alliance, EUmans, Mehr Demokratie, New Europeans, The ECI Campaign, Eurotopia, The Good Lobby, and WeMove Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The \u201cCitizens Take Over Europe\u201d initiative aims to create a fundamental and <\/span><b>bottom-up energy to reimagine our European project <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">at a moment when top-down governance is threatening the European values of unity and solidarity. The online festival on the 9th of May is the public launch of this initiative, and a call to action aimed at citizens and civil society organisations across Europe. It is a call to join us in developing leadership from the bottom up, and to organise ourselves &#8211; citizens and civil society organisations &#8211; by means of our very own Citizens\u2019 Conference in order to shape the Europe we want. 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